The Green Belt Movement, and the Story of Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement, recently won the Nobel Peace Prize. Her message: Peace is founded in healthy ecosystems, access to natural resources, and democracy.
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Presente! A Radio Station Barn Raising
When farmworkers needed a way to reach one another, they invited activists nationwide for a radio barn raising.
Bill Moyers – On Journalism
Some journalists are stubbornly pursuing the truth despite growing media monopolies, government secrecy, ideology, and public relations spin doctors鈥攂ut it鈥檚 getting tougher
Going to Where the Silence Is: Interview with Amy Goodman
Interview with Amy Goodman, how she created
Democracy Now
Spare the Rod
It's not coincidental that throughout history the most violently despotic and warlike societies have been those in which violence, or the threat of violence, is used to maintain domination of parent over child and man over woman.
A Life Lived Whole
What happens when people refuse to live a lie?
A Phoenix from the Ashes
Our youth, our natural world, our neighbors鈥攁ll are treated as expendables. What we need is a joining of movements based on valuing all life.
12 Steps: the cascading maths
The maths starts with the US consumption of 118 billion gallons of oil a year for travel in cars and light trucks.
Step 1: Stay Home 5 percent. Fuel
The Climate-friendly Northwest
Despite dire warnings, Northwest businesses, farmers, and cities are finding climate-friendly policies bring prosperity.
Making it Last
Hunter Lovins helped found and manage the Rocky Mountain Institute, famous for turning conventional wisdom about energy on its head. She鈥檚 still changing minds in the worlds of business, nonprofits, and government, showing a more sustainable path to prosperity.
The Hour Before the Dawn
Ten good reasons for hope.
Getting There on Less
How might we get around with less oil? Here鈥檚 a 12-step program to kick our addiction to gas guzzling.
The End of Ancient Sunlight
There are good reasons to move away from dependence on oil 鈥� war and climate change are among them. Then there鈥檚 the fact that oil extraction is about to peak, and we don鈥檛 have a plan for a world of diminishing oil supplies.
Street-corner Revolution
The Village Building Convergence. A sunflower
painted across an intersection. A solar-powered fountain. A
corner tea kiosk. Portlanders are taking over their streets and
teaching city officials to love 鈥渃ity
repair.鈥�
Mother of Exiles
In the U.S. today, immigrants are taking the blame for everything from environmental stresses to terrorism to the poor job market. What鈥檚 at stake for all of us in this debate?
Walking Through Fear
An interview with Frances Moore Lapp茅 by Sarah Ruth van Gelder
Cheese, Bread, and Thou
A small cheese shop in Berkeley has become a
community hub and a thriving model of worker
ownership.
Carry Me Away
Yet this is a sort of knowledge that
generations before us have already held, a way of appreciating
the world that we might share without trauma, without hard
lessons, if we but remember how our ancestors used to
live.
The Demand for the Common Good
What happens when economic growth produces more 鈥渋llth鈥� than wealth? What happens when it gobbles up the foundation of the good life鈥攖he commons?
The Secret to Happiness
Americans are far more affluent, on average,
than we were in the 1960s, but no happier. What do research
data tell us is the real source of joy and
contentment?
A Pilgrimage to Syria
The Damascus peace mission: pilgrims to Syria find that the healing of wounds begins with listening, learning, and praying together in many languages.
A Conspiracy of Hope
Many thought the global movement against unfair trade started in Seattle 1999. But going back over 200 years, people have reached across borders to end the slave trade, shame a brutal colonial regime, and bring respite to laborers of the industrial revolution.
The Time For Nonviolence Has Come
International Solidarity Movement and the power of nonviolence
The beloved community of Martin Luther King
Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s revolutionary ideas and what they might mean for us today.
Fearlessness: Finding Peace in Activism
I do not feel particularly brave when I speak. I am simply propelled by the force of what I want to say.
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